Improvement in gates



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Gate.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BAXTER OLOUGH, OF AMHERST, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN GATES.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent N0. 58,218, dated September25, 1866..

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, B. OLOUGH, of Amherst, in the county of Lorain andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFence-Gates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full andcomplete description of thecoustruction and operation of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure l is a top View of the gate when closed.Fig. 2 is an end view with the gate open. Fig. 3 is a view from thepoint A, Fig. 1, when open.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the views.

In the drawings, B represents the gate,

which is hung at a to the guys and lower plates, a pin, a, passingthrough the guys and top board of the gate as represented, and a pointfrom the under side of the gate resting in the plate, as shown at 0,Fig. 2. Thus the gate can be moved very easily. B represents the lowerplates, and O 0 guys. These plates and guys are held in place andsupported by the posts A.

Extending from the guys in an inclined position to the lower plates arethe counterbraces D D, which are to aid in supporting and strengtheningsaid plates and guys.

bl) are posts at one end of the gate. Near the post b is another post,0. The gate is double between the posts 11 b, there being boards on eachside of the posts, as shown at E, Fig. 3. In making the gate these postscan be cut out and the boards inserted, as at the posts I) b, or theboards can be nailed to the posts, as at the other end of the gate.

The object of making the gate double is to aid in strengthening it, andalso in supporting the other end of the gate.

The weights d are placed between the boards at the double end of thegate. (Shown in Fig.2.)

When the gate is in the position shown' in Fig. 1, the guy 0 willprevent it from sagging, and when open, as indicated by the dotted.lines F, in Fig. 1, the guy 0 is for the same purpose, the double end ofthe gate acting as a counter-balance, by the means of which-the gaterequires no force to open it, as it will swing without much effort.

The gate can be opened either in the direction indicated by the dottedlines F, or the red lines F, as desired.

This gate will be found very convenient and durable, and can be madecheap, most any farmer being able to make his own. The weights can be ofstone or any other cheap article. Doors for barns and other similarstructures can be hung in the same way.

What Iclaim as rnyimprovement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- The gate B, arranged and hung as specified, in combination with theguys 0 0, plates 13, posts A, and counter-braces D D, as and for thepurpose set forth.

BAXTER OLOUGH.

Witnesses W. H. BURR-IDGE, I. HOLMES.

